New Auth0 Platform innovations help developers secure GenAI applications with identity for AI agents
Auth for GenAI, part of the Auth0 Platform, is a suite of features that enable developers to integrate secure identity into GenAI applications.
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AI Policies In Africa: Lessons From Ghana And Rwanda
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing productivity and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. It powers self-driving cars, social media feeds, fraud detection and medical diagnoses. Touted as a game changer, it is projected to add nearly US$15.7 trillion to the global economy by the end of the decade. Africa is positioned to use this technology […]
Major shakeup for secret Apple unit
Apple will remove its secret robotics unit from the command of its artificial intelligence chief.
Free Speech In The U.S. Is Being Curtailed By Trump Administration
Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president and his Cabinet to force viewpoint diversity on campus violated the Constitution’s guarantees of free speech. “Defendants’ actions are unlawful,” Harvard’s lawsuit states. “The First Amendment does not […]
The skills software companies want most in South Africa
Software developer candidates should be able to do the basics when applying for a job. However, mastering a few other skills may set them apart from the rest.
MTN hacked
MTN Group has notified customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed the private data of some people in certain markets.
A Message From Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan To All Company Employees
The following note from Lip-Bu Tan was emailed to all Intel Corporation employees on April 24, 2025: Team, Today we reported our Q1 2025 results. It was a step in the right direction as we delivered revenue, gross margin and EPS (earnings per share) above our guidance, driven by Dave and Michelle’s leadership. I want to […]
Good news about winter load-shedding
Over the last three weeks, Eskom’s unplanned outages have reduced substantially. The power utility is also carrying our more planned maintenance than in the past few years.
MTN encounters cyber security ‘incident’
An unknown third-party has claimed to have accessed data linked to parts of the company’s systems.
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Power cuts suspended
Eskom announced that it suspended the stage 2 power cuts announced on Thursday afternoon five hours early, pausing load-shedding at midnight.
AI reset at Apple
The changes are part of a broader effort to catch up in artificial intelligence, a field where Apple has fallen behind.
Air Pollution Still Plagues Nearly Half of Americans
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people’s lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new report finds. The report comes as the Trump administration is considering rolling back some key air quality regulations. Air quality across the country...
Slate Auto’s $25K Electric Pickup Is Here: Pricing, Specs, Range, Release Date
The modestly priced EV pickup goes 150 miles on a charge and is infinitely customizable. Deliveries start next year.
Waymo Reports 250,000 Paid Robotaxi Rides Per Week In US
Waymo is now providing over 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in the U.S., up from 200,000 in February, as it expands into cities like Austin and grows partnerships with Uber and automakers. CNBC reports: “We can’t possibly do it all ourselves,” said Pichai on a call with analysts for Alphabet’s first-quarter earnings. Pichai noted that Waymo has not entirely defined its long-term business...
US Agency To Ease Self-Driving Vehicle Deployment Hurdles, Retain Reporting Rules
The Trump administration introduced a new framework to expedite self-driving vehicle deployment by reducing regulatory hurdles, while maintaining mandatory safety incident reporting. NHTSA is also expanding its exemption program, allowing domestically produced autonomous vehicles lacking traditional safety controls to operate on U.S. roads. Reuters reports: The Trump administration said...
You’ll Soon Manage a Team of AI Agents, Says Microsoft’s Work Trend Report
ZipNada shares a report from ZDNet: Microsoft’s latest research identifies a new type of organization known as the Frontier Firm, where on-demand intelligence requirements are managed by hybrid teams of AI agents and humans. The report identified real productivity gains from implementing AI into organizations, with one of the biggest being filling the capacity gap — as many as 80% of the global...
Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a major privacy breach involving WorkComposer, a workplace surveillance app used by over 200,000 people across countless companies. The app, designed to track productivity by logging activity and snapping regular screenshots of employees’ screens, left over 21 million images exposed in an unsecured...
Microsoft Brings Native PyTorch Arm Support To Windows Devices
Microsoft has announced native PyTorch support for Windows on Arm devices with the release of PyTorch 2.7, making it significantly easier for developers to build and run machine learning models directly on Arm-powered Windows machines. This eliminates the need for manual compilation and opens up performance gains for AI tasks like image classification, NLP, and generative AI. Neowin reports:...
AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon ‘In The Roadmap’
AMD has open-sourced its “GPU-IOV Module” for enabling SR-IOV-based virtualization on Instinct accelerators using the Linux kernel and KVM hypervisor, with features like GPU scheduling and VF/PF management. Notably, AMD plans to extend this virtualization support to client Radeon GPUs. Phoronix reports: The AMD GPU-IOV Module is for the Linux kernel and for providing SR-IOV based hardware...